Sec. 11: Deployments & Managing Infrastructure at Scale

CodeStar can be used to monitor and check the health of an environment.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

CodeStar is used to quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS. Elastic Beanstalk can be used to monitor and to check the health of an environment.

Which AWS managed service allows to automate software deployments to a hybrid mix of EC2 Instances and On-Premises servers?

• CodeDeploy

• CloudFormation

• Elastic Beanstalk

• CodeStar

Answer explanation

AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to any instance, including Amazon EC2 instances and instances running on-premises.

A developer team would like to collaborate on code with versioning support. Which AWS service can help the developers?

• CodeDeploy

• CodeCommit

• CodePipeline

• Cloud9

Answer explanation

AWS CodeCommit is a secure, highly scalable, managed source control service that makes it easier for teams to collaborate on code. It also provides software version control.

You need a unified user interface that gives you visibility, control, and patching capabilities for your EC2 Instances on AWS, as well as for servers running in your on-premises data centers. Which service should you use?

• Storage Gateway

• OpsWorks

• Elastic Container Service

• Systems Manager

Answer explanation

AWS Systems Manager gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS. It is used for patching systems at scale.

You need to use Chef or Puppet. Which AWS service should you use?

• CloudFormation

• CodeDeploy

• OpsWorks

• CodeCommit

Answer explanation

AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet.

A developer would like to deploy infrastructure on AWS but only knows Python. Which AWS service can assist him?

• Software Development Kit (SDK)

• Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

• CloudFormation

• CodeBuild

Answer explanation

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open source software development framework to define your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages.

Which of the following allows you to deploy any AWS Infrastructure as a Code?

• Elastic Beanstalk

• OpsWorks

• CloudFormation

• Systems Manager

Answer explanation

AWS CloudFormation provides a common language for you to model and provision AWS and third party application resources in your cloud environment. It allows you to deploy Infrastructure as a Code.

A new startup would like an online integrated development environment (IDE) to write, run, and debug code. Which AWS service can help with this task?

• Cloud9

• OpsWorks

• CodeArtifact

• CodeStar

Answer explanation

AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.

Which service is referred to as a Platform as a Service (PaaS)?

• Elastic Beanstalk

• OpsWorks

• CloudFormation

• EC2

Answer explanation

Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform as a Service (PaaS). You only manage data and applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes it even easier for developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud

What is called the declaration of the AWS resources that make up a stack?

• CloudFormation Schemas

• CloudFormation Diagrams

• CloudFormation Templates

• CloudFormation Models

Answer explanation

AWS CloudFormation templates are JSON or YAML-formatted text files. They are declarations of the AWS resources that make up a stack.